Fourth.

[trustfellows]

As the fourth week comes to a close and Friday morning dawns like the rest of the week before it, with the chiming of the clock and the doors to the kitchen unlocking, it seems, for a brief moment, that everything will be normal. For a given degee of "normal", anyway – perhaps some are on edge because there's a definite pattern that's been happening here, but for a few blissful moments, everything seems quiet. It doesn't last long; eventually, Jericho's voice can be heard over the public-address system. He doesn't sound as excitable as usual, though perhaps that can be explained away with the content of his message: "Hey. Just so you know, we've kind of got a problem this morning. Nothing catastrophic or anything, but you might want to get into the foyer so you know what's going on. We'll be waiting." You might want to go.

Comments

[heritrix]

['Sup, Sayaka, we chose poorly today.]

Sayaka, let me do it.

[You... You look really terrible.]

[destage]

N--No, I'll--it's--

[She is literally not fine, but she's already in here and she. Um. Kind of can't really take her eyes off this. If Rin wants to get her to back off, she really would just need to guide her away, but...]

I--I can't...I need to know...

[heritrix]

[Well, she's going to move in front of her then, and brace a hand on her shoulder. Kind of cutting off her line of sight, to demand her focus elsewhere.]

Then I can check, and tell you. Do you really want to get that close?

[Have that as your last mental image of them, if it was someone you liked?

She won't force Sayaka away any more than this. If she continues now, it's her own choice; it just didn't look like she was thinking clearly before, so Rin wanted to get her to slow down for a moment. Think about it before she does something she might regret.]

[destage]

[Well, on the plus, when she sees who it is? She's out.

...Sorry, Rin.]